Morning Wire - Evening Wire: “Metro Surge” Moves Out & Bondi Defends Investigation | 2.12.26

Episode Date: February 12, 2026

Tom Homan wraps up “Operation Metro Surge” in Minnesota, more details emerge on the trans-identifying shooter in Canada, and Attorney General Pam Bondi defends her department’s handling of Epstein evidence. Get the facts first with Evening Wire. - - - Ep. 2630 - - - Wake up with new Morning Wire merch: https://bit.ly/4lIubt3  - - - Privacy Policy: ⁠https://www.dailywire.com/privacy⁠ morning wire,morning wire podcast,the morning wire podcast,Georgia Howe,John Bickley,daily wire podcast,podcast,news podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tom Homan wraps up Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota. More details emerge on the trans-identifying shooter in Canada and Attorney General Pam Bondi defends her department's handling of Epstein evidence. I'm Daily Wire, Executive Editor John Bickley, with Georgia Howe. It's Thursday, February 12th. This is Evening Wire. The end is near for the Trump administration's Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota. Daily Wire, immigration reporter Jenny Tare, has the story.

White House borders are Tom Homan announced at a Thursday press conference that many of the thousands of ICE and border patrol personnel sent to the Twin Cities from other areas of the country will soon return to their home offices. Federal authorities made nearly 4,000 arrests during the operation. Homan said the operation has been successful, which led to a significant drop in criminal illegal immigrants roaming the streets, quote, unprecedented levels of coordination from local officials and a decrease in anti-ice agitator activity. Federal authorities also tracked 3,364 missing migrant children who previously crossed the border alone.

Homan also pushed back on reports claiming that ICE is, quote, backing down. You are simply wrong. Look at the data. Record number of arrest and deportations. And we'll continue that effort. More details have emerged about the trans-identifying Canadian high school dropout who killed eight people and injured dozens in British Columbia on Tuesday. Daily Wire's senior editor Joel Needler has more. Old images of the shooter have resurfaced online.

One eerie picture shows the shooter sitting on a couch smiling while holding a rifle. Another shows the gunman sitting on a couch next to a much younger boy. The gunman killed eight people on Tuesday, including his mother and 11-year-old stepbrother, before apparently taking his own life. An initial active shooter alert described him as, quote, a female in a dress as he gunned down victims at Tumblr Ridge Secondary School. Authorities later described the attacker as, as a gun person and clarified that the shooter was a man who identified as transgender.

More developments in the Nancy Guthrie search today, here with the latest as Daily Wire reporter, Lyndon Blake. Investigators returned to Nancy Guthrie's home Thursday. This time, they put up a tent in front of her front door. There could be a lot of things going on behind the tent, but we do know that's where Nancy's blood was found, and that's where the ring doorbell footage the FBI released came from. The tent was up for about an hour and an investigation. investigators left. Something else is happening right now. Pima County Sheriff is looking for footage from neighbors who live within a two mile radius from Nancy from January 1st to February 2nd.

There's still no identified suspects in this case and there's not a press briefing, meaning Pima County has gone more than a week without giving a press briefing for updates on this case. The tip line for anything suspicious or any known facts about Nancy Guthrie's disappearance is 1-800-call FBI. President Trump has directed the Department of War to purchase electricity generated from coal power plants. The president's executive order titled Strengthening United States National Defense

with America's beautiful clean coal power generation fleet aims to shore up the U.S. power grid. It also makes use of America's plentiful coal resources. The order comes after the Biden administration focused on supporting unreliable sources like solar and wind. At a signing ceremony at the White House, saying the praises of coal. Clean, beautiful call.

Clean beautiful call. We love clean, beautiful call, don't we, Doug? The Pentagon has directed a second aircraft carrier strike group to prepare for deployment to the Middle East. Daily Wire reporter, Zach Jewel, has more. A second carrier group would dramatically boost an already formidable naval presence in the region. This marks a significant escalation in military readiness

as the Trump administration weighs potential strikes against Iran. President Trump confirmed Tuesday that he is weighing the deployment to increase leverage as negotiations over Tehran's nuclear and ballistic missile programs remain stalled. According to one official quoted by the Wall Street Journal, the order to deploy could be issued in a matter of hours. The House voted to rescind President Trump's tariffs on Canada. Six Republicans joined with almost all of the Democrats on Wednesday to rebuke Trump's invocation of emergency powers to impose 25% tariffs on import. courts from the Great White North. The vote is more a symbolic move than anything, as the president can and almost certainly will veto it. Republicans who broke ranks include Thomas Massey, Don Bacon, Kevin Kylie, Jeff Hurd, Dan Newhouse, and Brian Fitzpatrick. House Speaker Mike Johnson

noted in a press conference following the vote that the ultimate decision on Trump's tariffs will most likely fall to the Supreme Court, which heard oral arguments on the issue in November. A decision is expected later this year. Attorney General Pam Bondi defended the the Justice Department's release of files from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation during a heated House Judiciary Committee hearing. Daily Wire political reporter Cameron Arcane has the details. Representative Parmilla Jayapal condemned the decision to reveal graphic details about victims while withholding certain prominent names. An 11 survivors seated behind Bondi indicated they had not been able to meet with the department. Jayapal pressed Bondi to apologize directly to them,

but Bondi refused saying she would not engage in, quote, theatrics, though she expressed sympathy for what the victims endured. Representative Thomas Massey tried to hammer Bondi over specific redactions of the perpetrators made on documents that showcased the names of victims, such as in this exchange. Are you able to track who in your organization made this massive failure and released the victim's names? Are you able to track who it was that obscured Les Wexner's name as a co-conspirator in an FBI document. I believe

Wexner's name was listed more than 4,000 times about I had... Yeah, I already told you that. This is where he's listed as a token spirit. My answer. Come on. Let me finish my answer. We corrected that within 40 minutes. He was already

you're acting like everybody's trying to cover up Wexner's name. Reclaiming, reclaiming my time. I'm going to answer this question. Reclaiming my time. While Democrats, including represented Jamie Raskin, railed against Bondi's approach, most Republicans defended her saying she was refocusing the Justice Department on the rule of law.

In what may be the biggest controversy of the Games so far, Olympic officials have disqualified a Ukrainian athlete after he planned to honor fallen soldiers on his uniform. Vladislav Harris-Kevich qualified for competition in the skeleton, a sledding event on an ice track to take place in Cortina, Italy. But Olympic officials ruled that the Ukrainian athlete's helmet violated rules against political speech at the Games. The president of the International Olympic Committee delivered the decision on Horescovic personally on Thursday and left the meeting in tears.

For his part, Herescovic said he didn't break any rules. Of course, as an athlete, I always was dreaming about Olympic medal and it's also like a feeling that it was taken away from me. The House passed a revised version of the Save America Act on Wednesday. The legislation requires photo ID and proof of use. U.S. citizenship for voters. The vote went largely along party lines with every Republican who was present voting in favor of the measure. The lone Democrat to break with his party and vote for the act was Henry Quayar of Texas. The bill now heads to the Senate where it faces an uphill battle

having to reach the 60-vote threshold to overcome the filibuster. Polling shows the vast majority of Americans support voter ID. More than a dozen people have died in New York City as the Big Apple faces a brutal winter with trash and snow piling up. Daily Wire reporter Brecostole has more. The outdoor death toll hit 19 today, and piles of trash and snow remain on the city streets. I talked with former New York City mayoral candidate Curtis Lee Watt to get his perspective on the crisis and who or what is responsible. A lot of this is the result of Eric Adams' failures as mayor. They spent $7 billion housing migrants that we didn't even know in hotels, motels, giving them lodging, food, clothing.

okay, but we weren't doing likewise with our own homeless and, more importantly, the emotionally disturbed, who should have been brought to mental health care hospitals. So part of the blame is the Adams administration. The weather, we haven't had weather like this, where it's straight sub-freezing zero weather than, I think, in like 1780 in the middle of the American Revolution. Now it's so cold that you can't get rid of the snow. It's become blocks of ice. And we found many homeless people actually sleeping on the ice and snow with maybe a sheet over them to protect him from the winds. Sliwa added he didn't want to blame him, Donnie, one month into his administration. But he told us he believes the young mayor will need to make a hard pivot to remedy the situation.

And in other New York news, the police department there is asking for authority from the Trump administration to disable drones above the city. While the department can detect drones, it can't electronically disable them. That's created issues in their airspace as consumer models become more popular. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch highlighted her growing anxiety over the potential from drones to pose serious security threats in the city. In a speech Tuesday, she said, quote, tactics that once belonged to militaries are now increasingly accessible to smaller groups and commercial drones can be easily adapted into weapons of war.

Those of your drive home updates this evening. To learn more about these stories, go to daily. Wire.com. And in case you missed it earlier today, we covered some major stories, including a trans-identifying man committing one of the deadliest mass shootings in Canada's history, Ohio Republicans moving to protect parents who rebuff gender identity, and the FDA zeroing in on chemical preservatives in American foods. Thanks for tuning in. We'll be back tomorrow morning with another full edition of Morning Wire.